Kristolnicht: The Decline Of The New York Times

Thursday, 10 January 2008, 7:12 am | Ernest Partridge

While I gave up on the Times some time ago, I can't allow the latest outrage, the hiring of William Kristol as the newest Times columnist, to pass by without complaint. More >>

Ernest Partridge: About This “Mormonism” Thing

Friday, 21 December 2007, 12:18 am | Ernest Partridge

When Willard “Mitt” Romney announced his intention to run for the Presidency of the United States, one might suppose that there was joy in Salt Lake City among the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. More >>

Ernest Partridge: The Unraveling, At Last?

Thursday, 13 December 2007, 9:55 am | Ernest Partridge

The earth orbits the sun, as it has for four billion years, in perfect balance of two opposing forces: the centrifugal force which, in accordance with Newton’s first law of motion, draws the planet outward, and the centripetal force of the sun’s ... More >>

Twenty-Twenty Hindsight, Blinded Foresight

Friday, 30 November 2007, 12:51 am | Ernest Partridge

The “Monday morning quarterback” is commonly disparaged for criticizing, with the advantage of hindsight, those whose earlier reports and predictions, based necessarily upon limited and faulty information, prove to be false. To be sure, such “hindsighters,” ... More >>

The American People are Beginning To Get It

Thursday, 15 November 2007, 10:38 am | Ernest Partridge

Despite compelling statistical, circumstantial, anecdotal and eyewitness evidence that two presidential and numerous congressional elections have been stolen, this evidence has been discounted, ignored and ridiculed by the mainstream media and, ... More >>

The California Wildfires, and Right-Wing Smoke

Friday, 9 November 2007, 10:13 am | Ernest Partridge

The California Wildfires, and Right-Wing Smoke by Ernest Partridge , Co-Editor The Crisis Papers. More >>

TO: The Free World – FROM: The American People

Sunday, 28 October 2007, 12:26 am | Ernest Partridge

In the two world wars of the past century, the United States came to the rescue of free nations abroad (in addition to few nations that were not free). It is time now for “The Free World” to return the favors. More >>

Global Engineering and Climate Change

Saturday, 13 October 2007, 4:20 pm | Ernest Partridge

A Crisis Papers reader recently sent us an essay in which he proposed that the global climate crisis might be mitigated by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the ocean. This ... More >>

Jose Padillas’s Fate – And Ours

Friday, 14 September 2007, 8:33 pm | Ernest Partridge

The opening sentence of an August 17, reads: “It is hard to disagree with the jury’s guilty verdict against Jose Padilla.” There follows not a single word in support of this dogmatic editorial pronouncement – not a word presenting the charges against ... More >>

Ernest Partridge: An Ominous Complacency

Thursday, 30 August 2007, 12:18 am | Ernest Partridge

Small wonder. After six years of uncritically repeating the Bushevik lies, the mainstream news media is losing its credibility, as it is losing its audience. At last, Bushenomics is beginning to weigh heavily upon the 95-plus percent of the population that are ... More >>

Ernest Partridge: We’ve Seen All This Before

Saturday, 18 August 2007, 1:10 pm | Ernest Partridge

"What happened [in Nazi Germany] was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government ... More >>

Hillary Clinton: The GOP’s Favorite Democrat

Thursday, 9 August 2007, 12:59 am | Ernest Partridge

Officials at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation have contributed to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and Murdoch himself has held fund-raisers in her behalf. Lawyers at Kenneth Starr’s law firm, Kirkland and Ellis, have donated more to Clinton than they have ... More >>

Ernest Partridge: A Republic, If We Can Keep It

Sunday, 29 July 2007, 12:05 am | Ernest Partridge

Why not impeach? The Congressional Democrats offered several excuses for keeping impeachment “off the table.” One familiar response (even by such estimable Senators as Russ Feingold and Bernie Sanders), is that following a successful impeachment ... More >>

Go for it, Cindy!

Friday, 20 July 2007, 6:01 pm | Ernest Partridge

Cindy Sheehan has announced that if Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not put impeachment “on the table,” Sheehan will run against Pelosi in 2008 as an independent. More >>

Ernest Partridge: Judicial Tyranny

Saturday, 14 July 2007, 6:13 pm | Ernest Partridge

Consider an extreme and unlikely example, but nonetheless illustrative: Suppose the Supremes were to rule (five to four, of course), that “The United States is a Christian nation,” and that henceforth, only confessing Christians could hold public office. ... More >>

Election Fraud: Where’s the Outrage?

Monday, 9 July 2007, 6:48 pm | Ernest Partridge

July 3, 2007 On March 8, 1994, scarcely year into Bill Clinton’s first term, The New York Times reporter, Jeff Gerth, “broke” the infamous “Whitewater” story, claiming that the Clintons were involved in some sort of cryptic land investment ... More >>

The Back of the Invisible Hand

Thursday, 21 June 2007, 11:19 am | Ernest Partridge

The concept of "the invisible hand," cherished by self-designated "conservatives," has its origin in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. More >>

Ernest Partridge: A Failed Experiment

Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:09 am | Ernest Partridge

On January 20, 1981, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan told the nation: "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." More >>

Ernest Partridge: Liberals and Libertarians

At the outset of my professional career in the Sixties, I lived and worked in New York City and its suburbs. There I witnessed the rise of libertarianism as Ayn Rand and her disciples frequently appeared on TV, talk radio and public forums, at which ... More >>

Ernest Partridge: On the Morality of Science

Thursday, 3 May 2007, 11:02 am | Ernest Partridge

Why do the Busheviks hate science? Scientists insist upon presenting evidence and proven facts, regardless of what the Busheviks would prefer to hear. And so, for Bush's team, political dogma, special interests and public relations trump science. ... More >>